The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-02-15

The One Representative, tho Other Obstruc.
tive-Dried Yeast Cake Politicians.
Se1at0r Harrtson a he Republican Club Dinner
The influences that formed the Repub.
lican party were eclectic In their nature.
The call that brought them together was a
call to sacrifice and not to spoils, and ever
since that has been the dominating power
in the Republican party. The springs
from which 1t drew It's inspiration were
found In the high bills OF truth and duty.
[ Applause. Who formed it2 VIII SOME
man name its archItect2 You may to.
night call the roll OF It's first convention,
but they 'wero delegates who assembled
there and la platform was first written in
the hearts Of the people before 1t was re-
ported to the convention. The men OF
80 and their worthy SONS constitute the
party to-day. [Applause.] I do not hest.
tate TO say that the conscience, the patriot-
Ism, OF this country Ia In the Republican
party. Applause It never responds
with such alacrlty, or with such magnil.
cent force a8 when some moral issue chal.
lenges It's allegiance and its action. Zap
plause. nl7sT
1t has been party Of progress. 1t has
pioneered just as tho settlers from these
Eastern States in in tho earlier times cut
out pathways for emigration through the
wilderness Of the West, 80 has the Repub.
lican party by It's great leaders and It's
great following marked out new paths In
craftsmanship and brought after them
liberty and peace and an amazing PROS
perlty. [Applauss.l
The Democratic party has been party
OF obstruction. II has seemed 10 me that
1t was the holder In this great extreme OF
progress and prosperity which has boon
bearing us Oh resisting, iretting, complain.
ing and making progress itself only as 1t
waa borne along by the current that 1t re-
sisted. Applause. I have seen some
times upon hot summers day on one Of |
our dusty turnpikes In Indiana
a remarkable equipage, poor
lean horse with shuck collar and |
rope lines, dragging creaking vehicle,
whose wheels followed each other in this
fashion illustrating zig.zag Btyle), with |
aallow, ead.iaced man in the wagon and |
q more sallow and more sad-faced woman
walking behind [laughter] and q yellow
dog. trotting along beneath, and as have
noticed that equipage dragging its weary,
dusty way along upon the turnpike that
had been made for it amid cultivated |
fields, dotted with school houses and with
church spires, denoting and pointing the
laith OF the people who had the courage
TO open and settle the country, as have
seen 1t drawing its sad weary way along, l |
have said to myself: "Here comes the
Democratic party" Prolonged laughter
and applause.
think these reforms must begin, and
progress, and end within the party, be-
cause do not know of any political or
gsnizstion outside Of it that has any refor-
native power to spare. More laughter
and applause. Certainly not the Demo-
cratic party. lknow that our Mugwump
friends think they have a great deal
of surplus retormative energy, but the
trouble with those people is that they
have put themselven up on the shelf like
some dried cakes or Flsischman's com.
pressed, yeast, and they have no power
upon the mass that they should leaven
because they have ceased to have contact
with it. Laughter aud spplause.l
unite in the invitation go gracefully
extended to them by my brother Hawlsy
to come back, to put the leaven in the
lump and let us have the benefit OF it, but
70 abandon this silly notion that these
dried cakes on the shelf can work the re-
form Of the Republican party. [Applause.
And go it is. We will do cur own work.
Like the vital force, the Republican party
IS opening its primaries, making free the
sources of power and influence within it,
and asking them where there has been a
ree and fair expression in convention that
svery man will give his allegiance and his
support to the work which the convention
loes. [Applsuse.1 -.